USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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More on corrupt Biden, Merrick "Garbage" Garland, FBI,
filthy School Boards and Unfireable Self-Preserving
Govt Teachers Unions, etc... crushing fully legal
dissent and Free Speech...


Furious School Parents Will Not Be Silenced - Doesn't AG Garland Have
Better Things To Do?

https://wirepoints.org/buzz-off-attorney-general-garland-furious-school-parents-will-not-be-silenced-wirepoints/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/the-biden-justice-departments-lawless-threat-against-american-parents/
https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1438986/download
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-addresses-violent-threats-against-school-officials-and-teachers
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/totalitarian-tyranny-parents-groups-slam-garland-turning-fbi-their
https://nsba.org/-/media/NSBA/File/nsba-letter-to-president-biden-concerning-threats-to-public-schools-and-school-board-members-92921.pdf
https://wirepoints.org/why-is-criminal-investigation-of-pritzker-toilet-removing-property-tax-scheme-taking-so-long-wirepoints/
https://news.yahoo.com/critics-garlands-school-board-crackdown-180100364.html


It’s tempting to see the new directive by Attorney General Merrick
Garland as merely a transparent attempt to intimidate parents into
silence over opinions that the Biden Administrations doesn’t like.
However, it’s worth going though some of the other reasons why this
misconduct by federal law enforcement is is so appalling, and to
remind parents why they should not be deterred.

Many parents in Illinois and across the country have spoken out
recently with unprecedented anger in unprecedented numbers at school
board meetings and beyond. Their complaints have been about Critical
Race Theory in classrooms, mask mandates and explicit materials for
minors about sexuality and gender. We’ve written here often supporting
some of those complaints. My colleague Ted Dabrowski and I have
participated in some of the efforts directed toward our own childrens’
schools.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland

But on Monday, Garland issued a directive to the FBI and federal law
enforcement officials across the nation to focus on alleged criminal
conduct in protests by parents.

Outrage ensued immediately, and appropriately, from parents, their
organizations and commentators who are infuriated that a threat of
federal law enforcement is being used to try to scare them out of
constitutionally protected speech.

Garland’s Department of Justice has responded simply by saying it
isn’t true, and its defenders, particularly MSNBC, have cited examples
of conduct by parents that allegedly were either inappropriate or
illegal.

Linked here are Garland’s directive and an accompanying DOJ press
release. They should be read in conjunction with a letter sent by the
National School Boards Association late last month to President Biden,
which gave rise to the directive. It claimed that school officials are
“under immediate threat” and asked Biden to sic nearly the full force
of the national security establishment on offending parents.

It contains these astonishing requests, from which you would think the
entire Taliban is loose in America:

    NSBA respectfully asks that a joint collaboration among federal
law enforcement agencies, state and local law enforcement, and with
public school officials be undertaken to focus on these threats. NSBA
specifically solicits the expertise and resources of the U.S.
Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Secret Service, and its National
Threat Assessment Center regarding the level of risk to public
schoolchildren, educators, board members, and facilities/campuses. We
also request the assistance of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to
intervene…. including any technical assistance necessary from, and
state and local coordination with, its National Security Branch and
Counterterrorism Division, as well as any other federal agency with
relevant jurisdictional authority and oversight. Additionally, NSBA
requests that such review examine appropriate enforceable actions
against these crimes and acts of violence under the Gun-Free School
Zones Act, the PATRIOT Act in regards to domestic terrorism, the
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, the
Violent Interference with Federally Protected Rights statute, the
Conspiracy Against Rights statute, an Executive Order to enforce all
applicable federal laws for the protection of students and public
school district personnel, and any related measure.

The DOJ was happy to oblige. It’s directive, as you can see in the
documents they released, is much shorter but conveys the same point.

And the DOJ made sure that school boards and officials will be trained
in how to be claimed as victims who can call on those enforcement
mechanisms. From the DOJ press release:

    The Justice Department will also create specialized training and
guidance for local school boards and school administrators. This
training will help school board members and other potential victims
understand the type of behavior that constitutes threats, how to
report threatening conduct to the appropriate law enforcement
agencies, and how to capture and preserve evidence of threatening
conduct to aid in the investigation and prosecution of these crimes.

Keep in mind that a real crime requires violence or a threat to commit
either violence or some other illegal act. But most of the offensive
conduct being referenced by the media and school officials is not
criminal. Is it criminal to say, for example “we will get you,” or “we
will not forget this,” or “your career is education is dead”?

Some such things may be vile and reprehensible, like saying “we know
where you live,” but criminality is a different matter. The meanings
of many statements are not clear nor is their criminality.

Yes, there are other, worse examples of some actual, criminal conduct,
including violence, which should not be tolerated. But neither the DOJ
nor anybody else has put up any evidence that it is widespread enough
to justify such an unprecedented federal response.

That’s part of why Garland’s directive is so pernicious. He could have
provided a useful service by delineating what is prosecutable and what
isn’t. Instead, he used the tactic of exploiting the murkiness about
where the line gets drawn between criminal conduct and protected
speech, thereby purposely chilling what is constitutionally protected.

“Garland knows this is dangerous nonsense. I personally know that he
knows it.” That’s from Andrew McCarthy, who worked under Garland in
the DOJ.

McCarthy further wrote that “Garland incorrectly — indeed,
outrageously for someone of his experience as a Justice Department
official and federal appellate judge — claimed that free-speech
principles yield not only to “threats of violence” but also to
“efforts to intimidate individuals based on their views.”

Why is the federal government getting involved at all in this? Crimes
like those at issue are the domain of local officials.

In fact, the constitutionality of federal involvement is highly
questionable. At least two state attorneys general, in Arizona and
Missouri, already blasted the DOJ for that reason and more may be
coming. McCarthy, too, made that point in the column linked above.

Selective enforcement of law for political reasons is reprehensible in
itself, and it’s brazen in this case. If conduct like parents’ at
school boards, even when intimidating, is colorable as a federal
offense, where was the DOJ when rioting, vandalism and destruction of
statues was overlooked for being supposedly acceptable protest?

Doesn’t the DOJ have better things to do?

Here in Illinois, it’s been over two years since a federal criminal
investigation was opened about Gov. JB Pritzker’s removal of toilets
to reduce property taxes. It’s still open. The event happened over
four years ago. His reelection is approaching and his state would like
to know if he will be its next indicted governor. But now the U.S.
Attorney’s office in northern Illinois, which is handling the case, is
ordered to spend time on parents and school boards.

How about if federal resources were directed instead to, oh, say,
enforcing the border? Or providing what assistance they can to major
cities like Chicago being destroyed by crime?

Garland’s biggest error is underestimating parental devotion to
children. Few forces in nature are more unrelenting. Parents will not
be frightened off from doing what is right for their offspring by the
FBI or anybody else.

Garland apparently has a different notion of parental devotion. It
turns out that his son-in-law is the co-founder and president of
Panorama Education, which sells teacher training and curriculum for
race-focused surveys and conducts trainings on systemic oppression,
white supremacy, unconscious bias, and intersectionality. CRT-type
stuff, the primary thing parents are complaining about.

Parents, know that there is safety in numbers. Countless other parents
around the country will not stand for this.

We will not change what we say and write.

Nor should you.